Bob Report This Comment Date: January 09, 2005 06:39PM
nice, what other info is there about this guy?
Hurin Report This Comment Date: January 09, 2005 07:26PM
Well, not much over the Internet, but here's this...
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Born 1774, Died 1840
"[Caspar David] Friedrich [was] the sole landscape painter who…had the
power to move every part of my soul, the one who created a new genre: the
tragedy of landscape," wrote sculptor Pierre-Jean David d'Angers. Friedrich
aimed to produce a Christian art based in nature, divested of standard biblical
imagery. "God is everywhere," he said, "in the smallest grain of
sand."
After training in Copenhagen from 1794 to 1798, Friedrich settled in Dresden and
later taught at the Dresden Academy. His first works were sepia landscapes. In
1807 he began working in oils and immediately caused a sensation: his Cross in
the Mountains, installed in a private chapel, used landscape to evoke the spirit
of the Crucifixion. Shocked by his use of secular genre for a religious purpose,
critics accused Friedrich of sacrilege.
Friedrich's oeuvre encompasses scenes of ruined Gothic churches, cemeteries,
desolate landscapes, and silent figures in vast spaces, all deeply spiritual and
often melancholy. He was the first artist to create awe before nature and to
infuse landscape and light with emotional and symbolic content. By 1835
Friedrich was nearly paralyzed and could make only sepia landscapes. He died in
Dresden sad, lonely, and poor. His immediate influence was confined to some
students, but his work was rediscovered at century's end.
(http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/bio/a3267-1.html)
gruff Report This Comment Date: January 09, 2005 10:54PM
C D Friedrich is an excellent painter. A slight Maxfield Parrish feel there:
static and contemplative.
Bob Report This Comment Date: January 10, 2005 02:55PM
yeh very much so